Ministry Quotes - Page 6

• A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Voice, People

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• One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

  Frederick Buechner

  Spiritual, Religious, People

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Easy, He Man

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person.

  T. D. Jakes

  Who I Am, Generations, Persons

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• Those who turn proud when their praise is sounded, who seek their own glory, not Christ's, or those who are moved by slanders and by infamy, had better leave the ministry of the Word.

  Martin Luther

  Proud, Christ, Praise

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Church

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing ministry is to capture God’s vision for your ministry.”

  Phil Pringle

  Life Changing, Vision, Important

  Phil Pringle (2010). “You The Leader”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• Personally, I think that my father's ministry does have some effect on one. I perhaps thought I wasn't listening that well, but I could almost recite his sermons. He had the old-fashioned preaching style of chanting. He would explain a point and then there would be this pitch to excite the audience because people would eventually shout and respond to what he was saying.

  David C. Driskell

  Father, Thinking, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are.

  Sara Maitland

  People, Heaven, Greek

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• The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

  John G. Lake

  Spirit, Speak, Christianity

  John G Lake (2013). “Adventures In God”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Church

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 55: Sermons 3125-3177”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Hands, Church

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• If churches would take ownership of a vision, the next pastor who is thinking about coming to that church can see what their vision is and then determine if their vision fits with his or her ministry. If it doesn't, then it would be wrong for that pastor to come to that church.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Vision, Church

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

  John C. Maxwell

  Hands, Trying, Would Be

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• If a baby is born in Gaza and is not registered with the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, that baby does not exist, it does not count. I get very annoyed when my Palestinian friends complain, 'Why didn't they give me a permit, I am not a terrorist,' because it is not about the person, it is about a policy that people can't articulate because there is no discourse to explain the political intention behind it.

  Amira Hass

  Baby, People, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the way with Osteen to the idea that God wants you to have this big house and so on, the nature of American religion right now, the fact that it is so non-denominational and post-denominational, the most successful churches have to be run more like businesses than ever before. I think that just exposes Christians to a constant temptation to think about the ministry more as a business than they sometimes should.

  Ross Douthat

  Christian, Running, Successful

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Space, Astronomy, Should

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• I was asked in a way when Honorable Elijah Mohammed said take the step, choose between the wealth of America and the millions of dollars and the title, the ministry. So, I chose the ministry. If I was not sincere, then I would have easily went to Vietnam, boxin' exhibitions, and made a couple of cool million.

  Muhammad Ali

  Couple, America, Steps

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK. On the other hand, to make a sacrament (marriage), which is for your whole life, three to four conferences...Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church has not valued much.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Believe, Hands

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.

  John Templeton

  Life, Kindness, Heart

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• If we feel that our ministry has come to an end in one place, then it seems reasonable to move on.

  Mark Dever

  Moving, Ends, Feels

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.

  Hooman Majd

  Taken, Escaping, Paris

  Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.

  Vicky Beeching

  Foundation, Looks, Alone With God

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• The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Meaningful, Light, Long

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• We are all called to have faith. So all of us are called to evangelize, while some are specially gifted for this ministry.

  Mark Dever

  Have Faith, Gifted

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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